Trying here before I register for the dd-wrt forums

I use an app on my Android phone called iSyncr that will use wifi to sync my iTunes library to my phone. Both the phone and the laptop that houses the library are connected by wifi to the same router - a WRT54g v4. It's running DD-WRT v24-sp2 (10/10/09) std (SVN revision 13064).

My problem is this - why I initiate a sync from my phone, it will connect and do everything it's supposed to do, for a time. After about 30-60 files have synced, both my phone and laptop will lose their wifi connection for 3-4 minutes. This obviously kills the sync as well. This behavior has happened from two different phones. The maker of iSyncr was of no help, he had never heard of this happening. I'm nearly certain that I've had this behavior with two different PCs as well, which leaves the router. I don't even know where to begin there to determine what is happening. Anyone have any ideas?

Except it clearly works with a different firmware. The age of the router is irrelevant. It does all I need from a router at this point.

Newer routers work much better. Your internet speeds will actually improve with a new router. Those older routers simply didn't have enough RAM or CPU power to keep up with even 5 megabits/sec of data.

Personally, I like Mikrotik routers. They're cheap and ridiculously powerful and feature-rich.

Except it clearly works with a different firmware. The age of the router is irrelevant. It does all I need from a router at this point.

Newer routers work much better. Your internet speeds will actually improve with a new router. Those older routers simply didn't have enough RAM or CPU power to keep up with even 5 megabits/sec of data.

Personally, I like Mikrotik routers. They're cheap and ridiculously powerful and feature-rich.

I'm able to fully saturate my advertised internet speeds (18mbps/1.5mpbs) with this router just fine.

And seriously, it suits my needs just fine. None of this is relevant to the former problem at hand.

If DD-WRT on your router isn't capable of supporting your scenario, then it's clearly inadequate. The difference in firmware performance obscures the real issue--router hardware is an upper bound on performance. Your router is old as dirt.

I didn't comment again after the second post, but the issue is fixed. Loading Tomato solved it. I suspect a newer build of DD-WRT would as well. Its age is fucking irrelevant if it meets my needs, which it does.

Lyric911-- sounds like you already solved this, but I wanted to point out that the wireless QoS settings can be found under advanced wireless. These are separate and distinct from the QoS settings for internet traffic.

lyric - you had a bad build of DD-WRT. You needed 14929, from 8/12/10.

/hugs his WRT54GL. Currently at 173 days uptime.

molo - cannot saturate a 5 mbit link? lol. You are full of it.

I did some further reading after I switched to Tomato, and it seemed that updating would have solved it as well. It had probably been 2 years since I had really messed with it. Seems the router db on dd-wrt.com isn't getting updated properly.